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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC74DFJ06

1973-08-23 HOMER, New York, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N31JT

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL 114

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19780111

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A34552

Registrant of record

PARKER RAY

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N31JT JEANIES TEENIE Fatal

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

JEANIES TEENIE · N31JT

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

D

Airport

BERO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000005735

Pilot

Certificate

IA (IA)

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RUDDER CTL HORN FAILED.ACFT & PLT UNCERTIFICATED.

Investigator remarks

ROD END BEARING ATTACH PUSH-PULL TORQUE TUBE TO

Cause factors

75/A/CE A
SYSTEMS RUDDER AND RUDDER TAB CONTROL SYSTEM Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/BM A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DISCONNECTED Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/A/D6 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
84/J/8 J
MISCELLANEOUS UNQUALIFIED PERSON OPERATED AIRCRAFT Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2334. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2334.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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